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{{short description|Filipino-born American conceptual artist, educator (born 1974)}}

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| birth_place = Manila, Philippines| death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | education = | alma_mater = San Francisco Art Institute (BFA)Stanford University (MFA)| occupation = Visual artist, educator| known_for = Photography, sculpture, installation art| notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | awards = 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation| elected = | patrons = | memorials = www.stephaniesyjuco.com}}| module = | native_name = | native_name_lang = }}Stephanie Syjuco (born 1974, in Manila, Philippines), is a Filipino-born American conceptual artist and educator. She works in photography, sculpture, and installation art. Born in the Philippines, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1977. She lives in Oakland, California, and teaches art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Education

Stephanie Syjuco received a BFA degree in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995; she studied at the Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture (1997); and received a MFA degree from Stanford University in 2005.WEB, Stephanie Syjuco,weblink 2024-04-01, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), en, BOOK,weblink At home & abroad : 20 contemporary Filipino artists, 1998, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Friis-Hansen, Dana, 1961-, Guillermo, Alice., Baysa, Jeff., Asian Art Museum of San Francisco., 0939117150, San Francisco, Calif., 40146345, registration,

Career

(File:Stephanie Syjuco 2.jpg|thumb|2016 solo exhibition at Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco)File:Stephanie Syjuco 4.jpg|thumb|2012 installation at Fort Point, San Francisco]](File:Stephanie Syjuco 1.jpg|thumb|2012 Commission for the ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose)Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order to investigate issues of economies and empire. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenshipweblink Her early artwork explored the friction between the authentic and the counterfeit, addressing political concerns regarding issues of labor and economies within the capitalist system.WEB,weblink Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems, The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, UC BERKELEY'S CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA, 10 April 2016, In 2009 she created Copystand: An autonomous manufacturing zone for the Frieze Art Fair in London. The Wall Street Journal notes: "Other artists, meanwhile, are openly toying with the fair's changing economics... San Francisco-based artist Stephanie Syjuco and several of her artist friends are making copycat versions of their favorite fair pieces, which she is selling at "heavily discounted" prices ranging from roughly $30 to $750."NEWS,weblink Frieze Art Fair Opens to Steady Sales, Gray Art, Crow, Kelly, 15 October 2009, The Wall Street Journal, 14 January 2019, A long-time educator, she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture in the Art Practice Department at the University of California Berkeleyweblink having joined the department in 2013. Prior to being at Berkeley, she was a visiting lecturer at numerous art programs, including The California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Mills College, and Carnegie Mellon University. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, RYAN LEE Gallery in New York, and Silverlens Gallery, Manila. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New Yorkweblink San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,WEB, SFMOMA: Stephanie Syjuco,weblink 1 March 2019, Di rosa,WEB, The Collection,weblink dirosaart.org, 2016-11-03, Smithsonian American Art Museum|The Smithsonian American Art Museum]weblink and the Whitney Museum of American Art.WEB,weblink Whitney Museum of American Art: Stephanie Syjuco, collection.whitney.org, en, 2018-06-04, , among others. She is the recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in Visual ArtsWEB,weblink John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!, Stephanie Syjuco|website=www.gf.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-04}} and a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Program grant.WEB, Painters and Sculptors Program: 2009 - Stephanie Syjuco,weblink Joan Mitchell Foundation, 1 March 2019, In 2018, she was featured in the San Francisco Bay Area episode of .WEB, Stephanie Syjuco in "San Francisco Bay Area",weblink Art21: Art in the 21st Century, 1 March 2019, In 2011 Syjuco made (Re-Edition Texts: Heart of Darkness).In September 2019 Syjuco opened a large solo exhibition titled Rogue States at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.WEB,weblink Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States, Friswold, Paul, Riverfront Times, en, 2019-10-23, WEB,weblink Stephanie Syjuco, 2019-02-07, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, en-US, 2019-10-23,

Exhibitions

Exhibitions include a show at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, "Being: New Photography"WEB,weblink Being: New Photography 2018 {{!, MoMA|website=www.moma.org|language=en|access-date=2018-07-22}} at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Public Knowledge,"WEB,weblink Public Knowledge, SFMOMA, en, 2018-07-22, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Disrupting Craft: The Renwick Invitational (2018-2019)WEB,weblink Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018, Smithsonian American Art Museum, en, 2018-07-22, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and This site is under RevolutionWEB,weblink This Site is Under Revolution, www.mmoma.ru, 2018-07-22, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

• 2023 Recent Acquisitions: Stephanie Syjuco, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OhioWEB, Recent Acquisitions: Stephanie Syjuco {{!, January 26, 2023 - August 22, 2023 {{!}} Allen Memorial Art Museum |url=http://amam.oberlin.edu/exhibitions-events/exhibitions/2023/01/26/recent-acquisitions-stephanie-syjuco |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=amam.oberlin.edu |language=en}}
• 2017 CITIZENS, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, New YorkWEB,weblink Stephanie Syjuco: Citizens, Ryan Lee Gallery, 14 January 2019,
• 2016 Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime), Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CaliforniaWEB,weblink Stephanie Syjuco {{!, Catharine Clark Gallery|website=cclarkgallery.com|access-date=2019-01-14}}
• 2013 RAIDERS Redux, Catharine Clark Gallery Project Space, New York, New YorkWEB,weblink Syjuco: RAIDERS Redux 2012 {{!, Catharine Clark Gallery|website=cclarkgallery.com|access-date=2019-01-14}}
• 2011 Currents Series: Stephanie Syjuco: Pattern Migration, Columbus Museum of Art, OhioWEB,weblink Exhibit: Stephanie Syjuco at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Alive, en, 2019-01-14,
• 2011 RAIDERS, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CaliforniaNEWS,weblink Raiders and Empires, Quick, Genevieve, 27 October 2015, Art Practical, 14 January 2019,
• 2010 notMOMA, Washington State University, Pullman, WashingtonWEB,weblink An interview with notMoMA artist Stephanie Syjuco, 2018-06-21, Portland Art Museum, en-US, 2019-01-14,
• 2009 1969, PS1, New YorkJOURNAL, Falconer, Morgan, February 2010, 1969, Art Monthly, 27,
• 2009 Unsolicited Fabrications, Pallas Contemporary Projects with 126 Artist-run Gallery, Dublin, IrelandWEB,weblink Pallas Projects - Stephanie Syjuco—Unsolicited Fabrications: Shareware Sculptures, pallasprojects.org, 2019-01-14,
• 2008 Perspectives Series 164: Total Fabrications, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas

Bibliography

• See, Sarita E. The Filipino primitive : accumulation and resistance in the American museum. New York: New York University Press, 2017. {{ISBN|9780811835411}}
• Hart, Dakin, and Jenny Dixon. Museum of stones : ancient and contemporary art at the Noguchi Museum. New York London: The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in association with D Giles Limited, 2016. {{ISBN|9781479842667}}
• Syjuco, Stephanie. Comparative Morphologies: Complete Variations. 2008.
• Syjuco, Stephanie. Misproductions: Stephanie Syjuco. 2006.
• Johnstone, Mark, and Leslie Holzman. Epicenter : San Francisco Bay area art now. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002. {{ISBN|9781907804861}}

Notes

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External links

• Stephanie Syjuco's website
• Stephanie Syjuco in "San Francisco Bay Area", Art21
• Interview with Stephanie Syjuco MoMA Audio: Being: New Photography 2018
• Counterfeit Crochet Project
• Stephanie Syjuco SPARK episode
• Stephanie Syjuco: Pattern Migration at the weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150923103120weblink">Columbus Museum of Art, curated by Lisa Dent, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art
• Reframed: Artists Seeking Social Change Bring the Public into the Picture KQED video
• ‘Alien She’ Exhibit Explores the Connection Between Punk Rock and Fine Art KQED article
• Stephanie Syjuco artist talk: “Patterned Migration” at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, June 12, 2014

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